I have huge hands and feet. I'm 5'6" and wear a size 10 shoe.

There is a certain androgyny to my appeal.

Acting is a matter of giving away secrets.

I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every night and I don't gain weight. I still look OK as long as I'm dressed.

Men who love their mothers treat women wonderfully. And they have enormous respect for women.

I studied acting for 10 years before I went for an audition. I studied with Lee Strasberg and Actors Studio teachers, and went to the High School of Performing Arts.

No more bare bodies in film scenes for me. For my children's sake, I must stop. The other kids at school keep throwing it up to my children, and they are not kind.

When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.

My first movie was 'Diner.' My second movie was 'Tender Mercies.' I did really good work.

The more powerful you become, some people especially don't like it that you're a woman. I stick up for myself.

My nickname was Skinabo - skin and bones.

Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.

Leopold, like most men of power and prestige, was not so much interested in listening to what others had to say as he was in having an audience.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

I think I'm really obsessed with characters that lose their face, in a way. I think it's very moving.

I retired when I was 30 and I was bored shitless.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.

At the end of the day, besides everything that I do, I'm still just a 20-year-old girl and a Texan, at that.

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.